California-based AI firm Glean Technologies expands to India

Enterprise AI platform Glean Technologies has opened its inaugural office in Bengaluru, India. The office, covering approximately 26,000 square feet, will function as the central hub for its operations in India, including finance, sales, research and development, and business operations.

Founded by Arvind Jain, Vishwanath T R, Tony Gentilcore, and Piyush Prahladka in 2019, the startup offers enterprise search and knowledge management solutions. 

“Glean is an enterprise AI platform for all of the company's data. You can think of it as the Google or ChatGPT, but inside your company. It can answer any questions that your employees have using your private company knowledge. Today, AI is all about helping you get the information you need. But very quickly, it’s going to transform to an AI that works with you," said Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO at Glean Technologies in a press briefing.

"You will see all kinds of chatbots and systems that go beyond helping you find information. But the future is even more powerful. We will be living in a world where AI is going to work for us," he added.

Glean Technologies connects companies' applications and databases, enabling them to search, access, and manage their data and information across various platforms.

The Palo Alto, California-based firm has raised $350 million from top General Catalyst, Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partnersand others and is currently valued at over $2.2 billion. 

The company plans to expand its workforce from 150 to over 450 by next year. It aims to position itself as an employer for the top five IITs in the country—Bombay, Delhi, Kanpur, Madras, and Kharagpur, and has hired around 12 students since December last year. 

Moreover, Glean Technologies has developed conversational AI assistants and utilised advanced language models to create personalised summaries and responses by leveraging the company's internal information systems. 

"We are going to be hiring a lot in R&D. A lot of cutting-edge AI work that we're doing inside our company is going to be happening in our Bangalore site. We are also hiring significantly in other departments, like customer support, marketing, sales and business developments," Jain added.

The company said that it is actively growing its customer base in the APAC region through partnerships with prominent enterprise firms, including a Southeast Asian commercial bank, a global electronics and entertainment firm, and a global automotive manufacturer.

(The story has been updated with quotes from a press briefing.)